Multipurpose hair net



April 14, 1970 G. B. KEY

MULTIPURPOSE HAIR NET Filed Feb. 8, 1968 Fig. g

Nylon Tulle Gladys B. Key

INVENTOR.

Uted States Patent Othce 3,505,678 Patented Apr. 14, 1970 3,505,678MULTIPURPOSE HAIR NET Gladys B. Key, Anderson, Ind. (9012 Carriage Lane,RR. 3, Box 232-1, Pendleton, Ind. 46064) Filed Feb. 8, 1968, Ser. No.703,982 Int. Cl. A42b /00 US. Cl. 2-4 4 Claims ABSTRACT OF THEDISCLOSURE The article shown, unlike popularly marketed single purposehead coverings, is multipurpose, versatile and well adapted to serve themany purposes for which it can be used. Most prefabricated nylon tulleindoor and outdoor head coverings are limited to serve a prescribed useand function as (1) a slumber cap for overnight retention of a hairdo(2) as a wind bonnet (3) an all-weather bonnet or the like. Theinnovation herein revealed is washable, economical, neat and attractive,can be worn while trying on dresses, while dressing and undressing, usedas a wind bonnet while travelling, boating, fishing, skiing, andwherever and whenever the wearer desires to protectively encompass herhairdo.

This invention relates to that category of special article apparelclassified, generally speaking, as open-meshed nettype protective headcoverings, bonnets, caps, veils and the like and has to do, moreparticularly, with a multipurpose hood which has the unique capabilityof use indoors and outdoors, encloses the wearers head, face and neckand provides not only a hairdo or coiifure protector, but a uniqueinsect intercepting face guarding veil.

Persons conversant with the field of endeavor above comprehended areaware that compact and convenient nylon net and tulle caps, bonnets andhoods have been individually devised for many and varied single purposesas touched upon above and while many such adaptations have met withwidespread adoption and use and are equipped with edge bindings andtying ribbons of one type or another, there is room for improvement.Accordingly, it is the objective of the present achievement to provide afull fashioned hood which can be easily applied and re moved withoutmussing up or disarranging the hairdo and which when fittingly tiedaround the neck stays put, protects the hairdo and facial make-up withrequisite nicety, and serves a number of needs and purposes as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

Briefly, the hood is preferably, but not necessarily, made of nylontulle of requisite open-mesh, is wholly openable at its bottom and amplydeep and capacious that it can be easily slipped over the users hairdo(boulfant or any style) in a manner to fully encom ass the wearers headand face with the open bottom portions capable of being drawn in andgathered around her neck and under the chin and comfortably tied beneaththe chin. The front and rear half-portions or components have abuttingmarginal edges seamed together by an outstanding inverted U-shaped clothbinding tape which arches over the crown of the wearers head and rangesdown below her chin for eye-pleasing retention. The rear half-portioncan be conformably snug-fitting and the front half-portion amply fullfashioned to provide an insect repelling veil. By providing an accessopening and openable closing flap with snap fasteners, the wearers mouthis unobstructed when eating, smoking and for whatever purposes desired.

In keeping with the herein disclosed concept and when using the hood asan over-the-head sleeping cap, the two lower snaps can be unfastened andthe foldable flap snapped up and retained in a half-open position forunhampered breathing. While dressing this hood lends itself to hairshielding use while slipping a dress or sweater over the head. The useof nylon netting provides the degree of stiffness desired but will notchafe or irritate a sleepers face. While fishing, annoying insects arewarded off by the amply ventilated veil and the flap is available foreating or smoking, as desired. Experience has shown that this net willnot flatten the styled hair, even an elaborate coiffure when, forexample, the hair has been backcornbed or teased to stand high atop thehead. This hood can be made in selected sizes to cope with hair whichhas been set with rollers after shampooing or alternatively, by ahospitalized patient unable to care for her hair and in otherself-evident ways.

These together with other objects and advantages which will becomesubsequently apparent reside in the details of construction andoperation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, whereinlike numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a view in perspective of a multipurpose hoodtype nylonopen-meshed hair net constructed in accordance with the principles ofthe present invention and showing the manner in which it is constructedand worn.

FIG. 2 is a view also in perspective looking at the rear half-portion orsection of the dual section hair net in its expanded ready-to-use state.

FIG. 3 is a central sectional view taken approximately on the plane ofthe section line 33 of FIG. 2, looking in the direction of theindicating arrows.

And FIG. 4 is a front perspective view of a slight modification, thatis, wherein an access hole or opening is provided at the median area ofthe front half-portion or section and which shows the optionally usableflap folded up to assume a half-open position.

By way of introduction to the description of the details it should benoted that one embodiment or form of the invention is shown in FIGS. 1to 3 inclusive. While the adaptation in FIG. 4 is regarded as amodification it will be evident that, basically speaking, it embodiesall of the component features of that form of the invention shown inFIGS. 1 to 3. It is believed that it will simplify the presentation hereto regard the adaptation of FIG. 4 as corresponding in construction withthe simpler form in FIGS. 1 to 3. Accordingly, like or correspondingparts will be referred to in all four views by like reference numerals.

To the ends desired it will be first noted that the overall head andface covering could be described perhaps as a bonnet, head-encompassingcap or, as is preferred here, as a vertically elongated full-fashionedhood or hair net. The term hood is being preferably used to simplify thedescription.

The unique or improved hood is of the expanded open bottom style or typebest shown in FIG. 3. It is preferably made up of a front half-portionor section 6 and a complemental rear or rearward half-portion 8. Thesehalf-portions are preferably made from an appropriate washable amplystiff but appropriate nylon tulle. One may visualize the half-portionsas concave-convex in shape with their concave sides aligned with eachother when the hood is expanded as shown in FIG. 3. The rear portion 8is slightly shallower than the front full-fashioned portion 6. Themarginal edges of the two half-portions 8 and 6 and denoted generally at10 (FIG. 3) are caused to abut each other and are slipped into thechannel of a substantially stretchless type washable cloth binder orbinding tape 12. The component parts are stitched or otherwise connectedtogether and when the parts 6 and 8 are assembled and one views thedevice as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4 the outstanding bordering binding tapeappears to be of inverted U-shaped form. The lower marginal edgesencompassing or surrounding the open bottom of the hood are denoted at14 and 16 in FIG. 3 and are stitched in the channel of the cloth bindingtape 18. The attaching elements are here designated as flexible ties andare of suitable length and each tie is denoted by the numeral 20. Theupper end portions 22 are aligned with the depending lower portions ofthe arched or U- shaped binder and to assist in stressing this phase theU- shaped binder is denoted generally by the numeral 24 with the bightportion 26 adapted to bridge over the crown of the wearers head as shownin FIG. 1. The depending portions are denoted at 28 and are lined up andconnected with the upper ends of the ties 20. The free end portions ofthe ties are denoted at 30 and are adapted to be tied together when inuse in the manner shown in FIG. 1.

It is evident that the expanded hood is such that it can be slipped downover the wearers hair, head and face and when in position the lowerreinforced edge portions depend below the chin so as to permit the sameto be gathered and drawn around the neck and underneath the chin andthen tied in place with the ties 20 as shown in FIG. 1.

It is Within the purview of the concept to provide the lower medianportion of the front half-portion 6 with a vertically elongated suitablyproportioned access opening which is denoted generally at 32 and whichmay be rectangular in shape. The marginal edges of the opening arereinforced with suitably stitched binding tapes 34. This opening isnormally closed by a foldable flap 36 also made of nylon netting andwhose edges are bound by a binding tape 38. Any suitable arrangement ofsnap fasteners may be provided to keep the flap open or closed. Snapfasteners 40 are shown at the bottom to accommodate coacting snapfasteners 42 carried by the closing flap. Other snap fasteners behindthe snap fasteners 42 but not detailed can be utilized to achieve theopening and closing result illustrated in FIG. 4.

It is reiterated that this unique hood-type nylon tulle hair net is aninnovation in that it is washable, is inexpensive to make and affordsthe ventilation needed for unhampered breathing. The front can beprovided with a flap or the flap can be omitted as desired. The hood canbe worn outside while fishing and constitutes a guard or protectionagainst insects such as mosquitoes and the like. It can be aptly wornfor boating, skiing, fishing and for other similar purposes.Accordingly, it serves more than one purpose and is therefore unlikesimilar single purpose bonnets and nets.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles ofthe invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes willreadily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limitthe invention to the exact construction and operation shown anddescribed, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalentsmay be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A readily applicable and removable covering for the wearers head,hair and face and expressly designed and uniquely adapted to be wornwhile dressing, trying on dresses, outdoors during windy weather, Whilefishing, overnight while sleeping, and primarily for protectivelyshielding the wearers hairdo when necessary or desired comprising: ahood of requisite shape and size capable of conformingly but comfortablyfitting over and enclosing the wearers head, face and neck, said hoodbeing made of washable material and having a normally open butcontractable bottom circumscribed and edged by an endless substantiallystretchless binding tape, said binding tape being provided with a pairof diametrically opposite elongated flexible ties with free lower endscapable of being drawn and gathered around the wearers neckencornpassingopen bottom portion of said hood in a manner to contract said bottomportion, after which said free ends can be temporarily tied tgoether,said hood being made of open-meshed nylon tulle and embodying a rearwardhalf-portion contoured to aptly span and spread over that portion of thehairdo which is adaptedto be covered thereby, and a complemental forwardhalf-portion fashioned into and constituting face-covering veil, saidrearward half-portion being substantially concaveconvex when being usedand capable of providing a conformable bonnet-like fit, said fronthalf-portion being similarly concave-convex in use but roomy and capableof spanning the wearers face without hindrance or uncomfortabletautness, said half-portions having arched marginal edges confrontingand abutting each other and edged and joined by cloth binding tape whichis stitched to said edges, said edges and also said tape being of alength that they arch over the crown of the wearers head and depend overthe sides of her head.

2. The hood defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein the upperattached end portions of said ties are aligned with the respective lowerends of the depending end portions of said cloth binding tape.

3. The hood defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein the lowermedian area of said forward halfportion is provided with an accessopening of prescribed size and shape, said opening being provided withan optionally openable and closable flap, and said fiap and certainmarginal edges bordering said opening having quick-separable coaetingfasteners adapted to maintain the flap either open or closed, as thecase may be.

4. The hood defined in and according to claim 3, and wherein themarginal edges bordering said access opening are reinforced with bindingtape, said flap is made of nylon tulle and is marginally bordered andreinforced with binding tape.

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JAMES R. BOLER, Primary Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R. 2174, 207

